# Stern's course on Cuba and its economy is featured; Vice Dean Thomas Pugel and MBA student Emily Goldfrank are quoted

1 School News May 3, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a00708b6-df92-11e4-a06a-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ZAtDvKfb) -- "'How and what we learnt was of a different variety because the whole business environment was so different,' \[Goldfrank\] recalls, adding that this was in itself valuable in that it showed the challenges of operating in such a different economy. The pace of change in Cuba, where no business school yet exists, is a subject of debate. Tom Pugel, vice-dean of MBA programmes at Stern, is more confident than many of his academic peers and predicts that the country will have its own business school in five years."

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